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Don't wanna go to sleep... Because last night I kept on waking up and seeing things in my room (I have had this before, you wake up terrified and see a man or something and then the image disappears), then I got to sleep and had horrible dreams.
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there must be something you're subconciously worrying about...
Although this may not actually work, i watched interview with a vampire last night to help me drift off and i had probably the best nights sleep ive had in yonks with no nightmares at all
Relegate yourself to the couch.
Leave the T.V on.
It'll ease it considerably...at least in my experience.
Or ambient noise.
Leave the stereo on.
Doubt it'll help... I normally get this when I'm stressed. Basically, I go to sleep (for a short period of time) and I think I dream, I'm not sure though. It's like drifting in to sleep and then opening your eyes to see some crazy shit (I've seen all sorts, from a man, to demons, to huge insects) and I seem to think they're really there.
Ok, it was wierd with the insects, they were like huge. I have no fear of insects but I was terrified and they were on the wall. I stared at them and then started screaming "give me the fucking torch!" to my room mate. I can't explain it really.
Have had bad nightmares too. My scariest nightmares are often ones which imply rape. I hadn't had a nighmare for a while before last night, not since january where I dreamt my Dad beat me up and was going to rape me. Some of the most vivid dreams I've had have been about rape (one of my most frightening was when I was younger and dreamt that an invisible demon held me down and raped me. It was so vivid, the feeling of being held down).
I don't want to start having nightmares again. :no:
It is incredibly frightening and feels very real, the images I see are just like real life! Stress definately brings these on for me! The more worried I am the worse it gets.
Maybe you could go and see your GP for some advice, in the meantime try to stay relaxed. Also, I haven't really thought about this before, but I wonder if certain types of food make it more likely to happen :chin:
I wouldn't call the nightmares, but last month I had 3 bad dreams each night in a row... wasn't very nice. I get them when I'm stressed or feeling depressed. Often dream of tornados for some reason, even though I've never seen one. About 3 years ago I would have about two tornado dreams every night... I was in a pretty bad mental state at the time.
As for the seeing things... I get that when I'm awake! If I'm feeling stressed or low, I start seeing things out the corner of my eye (even during the day)... like mutilated people and stuff... and I get these like flashes of bad images in my head... like if I'm in the car I'll suddenly get a really vivid image of having a car crash and stuff.
I'd try meditating before you go to sleep; and maybe doing some yoga breathing exercises... There's one where you rest your thumb and finger either side of your nose (like you're going to pinch it). Press your thumb down to close one nostril while you breath in, and then when you breath out take your thumb off and press your finger down, so you're breathing in through one side and out the other. It's relaxing. I think it gives you something calming to concentrate on. No harm in giving it a go anyway.
I know what you mean about rape ones, they are so vivid, even if you don't actually get raped in them, just the feeling that you almost were is terrified. People dont understand how much dreams can scar you even though they arent real. It may sound really stupid but I used to have dreams with Adolf Hitler in that were so scary, he would come and shoot at little children or at me, and once forced me to mutilate a little girl.
I have such a nice, happy life with no problems, I don't understand why I dream such horrible things sometimes, and why I am so paranoid about being murdered every night >.<
It's bizarre.
It's because I'm ill at the moment with a bit of a temperature.
Not nice.
I specifically remember having a nightmare last year that was so horrible I remembered it for days and would shake whenever I thought of it. Also I kept looking behind me etc. But soon afterwards I had completely forgotten what the nightmare was about.
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Woo!
some stressors you can't just get rid of but definately finding ways to deal with stress helps.
Hehe I always get this, I can actually control what happens in my dreams/nightmares now. It's quite funny the things you can make yourself see while dreaming.
I just woke up there thinking something had dragged me off my bed with the duvet whilst I was still in a light sleep, and I was running for the light to put it on, I looked behind me and my duvet was vertical, with a shape of a head poking through but nothing there, and it was going 'ARRRRRRGH!' at me.
The night before I woke up scrambling to put the light on and I was shitting myself thinking there was something in my room and I DON'T know why.
I'm actually SO tired. I can only sleep during the daytime, but I know there's nothing I won't see that won't be there in the dark but this is starting to really freak me out.
Pretty stupid idea, because at least 2 or 3 times I thought I was in the film. Very much like a nightmare. Was fucked up but I snapped out of it. DVD started playing up and I was happy to turn it off after that. Ketamine and horror movies don't mix. I should have thought about what I was doing because it's not the first time I've been watching a film whilst on ketamine and thought I was in it. Just the other times it's been better movies to be in, like fear and loathing in las vegas!
Oh, and night terrors are pretty scary shit too. The sense of impending doom and dread really shake you up.
One was there was some kind of war or something going on and some official looking people wouldn't let me through the airport to get back home... and then next thing I knew they were throwing people into this big reservoir thing, with loads of horrible gunge and great big skips of uneaten food, all congealed and horrible... and people were getting stuck at the damn where all the water was flowing out... and they were drowning because they couldn't swim against the force.
And then I had another dream that I got a phonecall from my sister saying my dad had disappeared from the spot where there was an attack and he'd not got in-touch and I started crying.
I also had a strange dream involving eyeing up a bloke though, and someone saying he fancied anything that moved so I was well in with a chance